Invulnerable Fragility

Although I should have done it on the 1st b/c that was their 61st anniversary, today I honor these 4 students from NC A&T (My husband's alma mater). They helped spark sit-ins to change the policy of segregation of public spaces. It quickly caught on and there were sit-ins across the country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjeVqNcN5yI

 Copied from my Facebook:  Today I starting watching "Loving" on Netflix which is about the court case that allowed for interracial marriage. As I have read about this case and this humble couple, I am grateful for their fight. They didn't even want to make a big fuss, they just wanted to be able to love each other and raise their family. Interracial marriage was made legal in 1967. However, some states were slow to adopt fully. "Despite the court’s decision, however, some states were slow to alter their laws. The last state to officially accept the ruling was Alabama, which only removed an anti-miscegenation statute from its state constitution in 2000." Nayte and I got married in 2006. Something I have learned is that these big events and court cases didn't happen a long time ago. Our PARENTS remember these times bc they were there watching it all unfold or were a part of it. Racism is far from over. The racist people fighting against the civil rights move

 Some of this is  a repeat from what I posted on FB about this topic but some of this content is new as well.   Today I watched "Hidden Figures" on Disney+. I remember the shock of not knowing about these women's important contributions to the US going to space. Even my husband, who attended an HBCU, hadn't heard of them. It was sad that stuff like this was hidden for so long. It wasn't until 2015 that their story was made known and they got credit for their work. My favorite part of the movie was when Kevin Costner's character started to SEE what these women really deal with and ripped off the colored only bathroom signs and the sign on the coffee pot. He had realized their worth and realized they were all heading toward the same goal and should have whatever they need to accomplish this mission. It was a huge step forward. Why is this my favorite part? Is it because Kevin Costner is the Great White Savior? NO- he is far from it. Is it because in this moment

Copied from my Facebook: Today I would like to honor the Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black air core in the military. These have been one of Nayte's heroes for some time. We have a signed painting and two models of their aircraft, the P51 Mustang, as well as books and magazines about them. They were trailblazers and proved their worth time and time again that Blacks were as capable as Whites in flying successful missions. They were part of the reason Nayte wanted to fly in the Air Force. Here is the link to the wikipedia page about this man, Herbert Carter, whom Nayte had the honor of meeting in real life a couple of times. To learn more, here is an article from history.com that includes a video. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/tuskegee-airmen Also, there are two movies made about this squadron called the Tuskegee Airmen (on HBO) and Red Tails (on Disney+) to see it unfold. (Tuskegee Airmen is the better movie in our opinion)

Copied from my Facebook account:  February is the month that we can count on learning about and hearing about more Black stories than any other part of the year because our education curriculum has omitted it. This video does a great job explaining this. I am also of the opinion that we shouldn't have a Black History Month however, until we get a sufficient replacement, that's what we have. So throughout this month, I plan to post videos and articles to show more of Black history than Slavery and Martin Luther King and the usual people and events we hear about. Any time this effort has been given traction it gets slammed down. I hope moving forward in 2021 we can finally rewrite the history curriculum to include people of color to show their contributions and struggles because it makes up this messy yet beautiful tapestry of American History and deserves to be recognized. YOUTUBE.COM The True History Of Black History Month Below is a brief but very informative discussion o

"The truth is that as much democracy as this nation has today, it has been borne on the backs of black resistance. Our founding fathers may not have actually believed in the ideals they espoused, but black people did. As one scholar, Joe R. Feagin, put it, ‘‘Enslaved African Americans have been among the foremost freedom- fighters this country has produced.’’ For generations, we have believed in this country with a faith it did not deserve. Black people have seen the worst of America, yet, somehow, we still believe in its best."- Nikole Hannah Jones This powerful quote came from the brilliant and controversial New York Times magazine entitled "The 1619 Project".  I have heard so many times that black people just play the victim and don't pick themselves up from their bootstraps and get to work in order to get themselves out of poverty and their plight.  Well, they have been doing this for generations.  We just refuse to see this collective effort because of the